What is PQ?

PQ is the acronym for Positive Intelligence. PQ is your measure of mental fitness and emotional resilience. It's the best predictor of how happy you are, and how well you perform, relative to your full potential. 80% of people score below the minimum level of mental fitness required for peak performance and happiness.

With recent breakthroughs in neuroscience and technology, mental fitness can be improved, just like we can change our physical fitness through exercise and nutrition. The results? Dramatically improved productivity and a calm, clear, laser-focused mind. In other words, happiness! At work, it results in more engagement and higher performance, and greater connection to one's calling!

This picture is artist Kadir Nelson's evocative response to the pandemic.  Noticed the eyes of each person are looking forward. There is a possibility emerging.  (“After the Storm" by Kadir Nelson. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/artist-kadir-nelson-after-the- storm/).  

We are still living with COVID, uncertainity about the future of the UMC, and an incrediable amout of stress in our personal and professionsal lives.

It is time to move beyond reacting to - to creating from.  And Positive Intelligence can provide an "operating system" for us to do that.

As United Methodist clergy leaders, our calling now is to model that hope-full presence for our clergy, laity, and churches. The PQ group’s participants will become leaven for the work that they do with others in their own setting.

The pessimist complains about the wind. 

The optimist expects it to change. 

The leader adjusts the sails.

- John Maxwell

  PQ AS ANOTHER TOOL FOR MINISTRY

by Linda Holland, Director Of Connectional Ministry, North Alabama Conference, 2009-2020

I wanted to make you aware of a resource that might be beneficial in your work and ministry.  Dr. Jim Robey has been my life/corporate coach for many years.  He consistently helps me live my way out of corners I think myself into.  Along with another friend and former DCM, Dr. Rod Miller, Jim is offering a group coaching experience I found to be very helpful in both life and ministry when I participated this spring.

Positive Intelligence (https://www.positiveintelligence.com/) both quieted the many voices which often battle in my head and gave me priceless ways to practice both the abiding a life in Christ requires and the peace it promises.  The PQ process encouraged me to be less reactive and to pause to wisely examine not only my own motivations, but also the motivations of those with whom I interact. This is one of the few areas of life in which a slower response time is wonderful!

While PQ began as a secular group process, Jim and Rod have, with permission, adapted this great method for those in ministry, and the combination was incredibly beneficial to me.  I pray this may become a helpful addition to the many gifts and talents you already possess.